Temple Square was right across the street from our hotel. This view is from the 8th floor, right outside our room. You can see the roof of the Tabernacle and beyond it, the Temple.
Temple Square was right across the street from our hotel. This view is from
the 8th floor, right outside our room. You can see the roof of the Tabernacle
and beyond it, the Temple.
So we spent a lot of time enjoying the award-winning gardens in Temple Square.
They cost millions to maintain, and that doesn't include the labor of planting,
since volunteers do that part.
We enjoyed one of the organ concerts inside the Tabernacle on Wednesday.
The columns are wood, made to look like marble. I was amused that the pews were
cut to fit the columns.
The Temple.
The Angel Maroni on the top of the Temple.
Pollarded trees.
To get into the temple, the church members enter through this building and
go through a tunnel.
This beautiful Temple door doesn't actually open.
On Saturday, we saw a number of formally-dressed wedding parties in the
Temple area.
These planters contained low-growing plants.
An unusual choice.
Foxglove.
A monument to the pioneers who pulled their meager belongings west on handcarts.
Seagulls are honored because they are reputed to have saved the crops of early pioneers by eating
an infestation of Mormon crickets (a type of katydid).
Even the air conditioning unit had flowers planted on top.
A Cedar of Lebanon.
This cute little blossom remains a mystery. None of our group could identify it.
The columbine was just amazing -- so many varieties, each intriguing.
